8. The Death Star of Horizon 2020

We decomposed the giant component of the stable partnership graph into k-cores, using the property relationshipValue as edge weight. This property encodes the sum of the EC contributions received by the organisation at the source of the edge across her relationship with the organisation at its target. We can think of it as the value of that particular partnership to the source organisation. Recall that in this graph the edge (A => B) is not the same as the edge (B => A). In particular the value to A of working with B might be very different from the value of B of working with A: one partner might take a larger part of the budget than the other across one or more projects.

The "innermost" (maximal k) k-core is composed of 22 highly central organisations. They are densely connected to each other (434 stable partnerships across the 22). We call it the Death Star. They are mostly high-profile universities and public research centres. No private company or public sector organisation is a part of it. Fraunhofer is the highest-connected organisation of all: it has 704 stable partners. The Centre National de la Rechèrche Scientifique attracts the most resources, ove 350 million Euro, and participates in the most projects, 496. Collectively, the 22 organisations in the Death Star secured 2.2 billion Euro of contribution under Horizon 2020, out of the 19.8 billion allocated so far (after taking out the approximately 400 million for the EURATOM project, which we excluded from the computation).

Name	Type	Country	projects	stable partners	EC contributions (MEuro)
CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE	REC	FR	496	573	355
FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG	REC	DE	403	704	222
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE	HES	UK	263	190	175
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD	HES	UK	250	235	172
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON	HES	UK	240	257	160
IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE	HES	UK	187	212	118
CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE	REC	IT	244	508	112
AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS	REC	ES	233	402	109
TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT	HES	NL	153	186	102
KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN	HES	BE	167	199	100
INTERUNIVERSITAIR MICRO-ELECTRONICACENTRUM IMEC VZW	REC	BE	86	141	92
EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH	HES	CH	141	244	72
THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER	HES	UK	119	172	70
KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET	HES	SE	100	189	69
TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN	HES	DE	103	131	66
POLITECNICO DI MILANO	HES	IT	132	207	64
FUNDACION TECNALIA RESEARCH & INNOVATION	REC	ES	121	221	57
NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGEPAST NATUURWETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK	OTH	NL	109	222	55
TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN	HES	NL	100	158	54
RHEINISCH-WESTFAELISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE AACHEN	HES	DE	91	172	53
TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET DRESDEN	HES	DE	82	141	47
CHALMERS TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLA	HES	SE	81	140	43